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Moroccan-French cooperation in taking up the challenges of security and terrorist threats as well as Morocco’s operational and logistical support to France as part of the preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were reviewed at a meeting between the two countries’ Interior Ministers held in Rabat this Monday. The Moroccan and French Ministers of […]
Burkina Faso has declared three French diplomats as “persona non grata”, accusing them of being involved in “subversive activities”, and ordered them to leave the country within 48 hours, the Foreign Ministry in Ouagadougou said in a note dated Tuesday (16 April). According to the note that was sent to the French embassy in Burkina […]
France is gradually tilting towards an outright recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara territory where it said Paris is ready to back Morocco’s investments. The position to back Morocco’s economic projects in the Sahara was first expressed by French foreign minister Stephane Séjourné in February and reiterated this month by French minister in charge […]
France and Morocco are making progress in implementing their “ambitious” joint roadmap, deputy spokesperson for the French Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Talks between the French Foreign Minister, Stéphane Séjourné, and his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, which took place in Paris on Tuesday, have “enabled us to make further progress in implementing the political agenda […]
Morocco’s foreign minister discussed bilateral cooperation with his French peer Stephane Séjourné in Paris, two months after they met in Rabat. “The momentum ushered by my recent visit to Morocco is continuing today with a working session with my counterpart, Nasser Bourita. Relations between France and Morocco are unique,” Séjourné said in a tweet. […]
Senegal will conduct a comprehensive audit of the oil, gas and mining sectors, according to the newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who, however, also thought to reassure jittery investors they were welcome in the country. The audit is one of the first policy moves announced by the 44-year-old former tax inspector who stated that […]
French minister in charge of foreign trade, Franck Riester, said his country “welcomes” and is “ready” to finance Morocco’s investments in the Sahara territory. His statement echoes that of French foreign minister who broke the ice in Rabat saying France welcomed the development effort led by Morocco in its southern provinces and is ready to […]
France has allowed its development agencies to fund projects in the Moroccan Sahara, a move that implies a recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the territory, Moroccan media reported. The decision was reported by LeDesk and confirmed by Medias24 which reported that it will be officially announced during the visit of the French foreign trade minister […]
African countries are watching closely France’s attempt to impose an EU-wide ban on the export of second-hand clothes, popularly known as mitumba, millions of tonnes of which are exported to the continent each year. France’s lower house of parliament has recently approved a new bill that would gradually impose fines of up to €10-per-item of […]
Despite the recent decision by the ECOWAS to lift its sanctions imposed on Niger, the stalemate between the regional bloc and the three coup-hit Sahelian countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger lingers on. Observers and analysts have pondered if the relations between the three junta-ruled countries and the Economic Community of West African States […]